Buds Board Keepers League

At this point this is mostly speculation but where do you expect the players on your team to be in the real NHL? Should start some interesting debate...

Mine:

Bergeron, Patrice - 2nd or 3rd line Center, PP and PK
Kesler, Ryan - 2nd line center, PP and PK
Krejci, David - 1st or 2nd line center, PP and PK
Peverly, Rich - 2nd or 3rd line center, PP and PK
Kelly, Chris - 3rd line center, PK

Whitney, Ray - 1st line LW, PP
Zetterberg, Henrik - 1st or 2nd line winger, PP and PK
Callahan, Ryan - 2nd or 3rd line winger, PK
Iginla, Jarome - 1st line RW, PP
Foligno, Nick - 2nd or 3rd line winger
Recchi, Mark - 2nd or 3rd line winger, PP
Bourque, Rene - 1st or 2nd line winger, PP and PK

Demers, Jason - 2nd pair, PP
Johhny Boychuk - 1st pair, PP and PK
Carkner, Matt - 2nd or 3rd pair, PK
Sutton, Andy - 2nd pair, PK
Hunwick, Matt - 2nd Pair, PP and PK
Seabrook, Brent - 1st Pair, PK

Thomas, Tim - Starter 1B
Rask, Tuukka - Starter 1A

Extras who will more than likely play:
Darche, Mathieu - 4th line winger
Pettersen, Fredrik - 3rd line winger
Ferriero, Benn - 3rd or 4th line winger
Wilson, Kyle - 3rd or 4th line center
Sestito, Tim - 4th line center
Stone, Ryan - 4th line winger
Crabb, Joey - 4th line winger(I am predicting he makes team)
Bartulis, Oskars - 3rd pair
Nikitin, Nikita - 2nd pair or bust
Toivonen, Hannu - backup goalie to Turco (my guess over Crawford)

Everyone: 3rd line.

Datsyuk, Savard, Weiss, Brown, Backes - Line 1
Giroux, Langenbrunner - Line 2
Bolland, Simmonds - Line 2/3
O'Reilly, Ott, Cooke - Line 3

Lidstrom, Gonchar, Streit - 1st Pairing
Ehrhoff, Giordano, Greene - 1st/2nd Pairing w/ PP1 and PK1.

Howard - Starter
Osgood - Backup

I have an AHL all-star team

Raptactics wroteCOLONI have an AHL all-star team

I hope they are busts but have a good AHL career

Rofl thanks Hongster

1st Lines:
Sidney Crosby
Alex Ovechkin
Daniel Sedin
Henrik Sedin

2nd lines:
Kris Versteeg
Drew Stafford

3rd Lines:
Mikhail Grabovski
Sean Avery
Zack Boychuk

4th Lines:
Eric Boulton
Jordin Tootoo
Steve Begin

1st Defensive Units:
Drew Doughty aka Bobby Orr
MDZ

2nd Defensive Units:
Hall Gill

3rd Defensive Units:
Chris Campoli
Brent Sopel
Adam McQuaid

Goalies:
Steve Mason - Starter
Mathiau Garon - backup


There it is bitches, i'm a top line top D pairing team. Everything else blows.

You can also move drew stafford down he wont be higher than third line but wishful thinking for you here in buffalo we know where he will be 3rd and 4th line and if he doesn't do anything he will be benched.

1st line
Vanek

2nd line
Connolly
Lucic
Frolik
Stajan

3rd line
Ennis (but pretty sure he will play the top 2 line)
Eberle
Lupul
Turris (will be 2nd line centre by end of season)

4th line
Zharkov
Wandell
Brodziak
Murray

1st pairing
Enstrom

2nd pairing
White
Komisarek

3rd pairing
Zanon
Sanguinetti
Stuart
Salmela

Starter
Luongo
Poulin (starter in ahl)

Mike Knuble (WSH 1st/2nd line RW)
Shawn Horcoff (EDM 1st/2nd/3rd line C)
Alexei Kovalev (OTT 2nd line RW)
Eric Belanger (WSH 3rd line C)
Michal Handzus (LA 3rd line C)
Daniel Cleary (DET 3rd line RW)
Jiri Hudler (DET 3rd line LW)
Jonas Andersson (NSH 3rd line W)
Petr Prucha (PHX 3rd line W)
Ethan Moreau (CLB 3rd/4th W)
Jesse Winchester (OTT 4th line/spare F)
Cam Janssen (STL 4th line/spare W)

Nicklas Grossman (DAL 1st pair D)
Brian Campbell (CHI 2nd pair D)
Henrik Tallinder (NJ 2nd pair D)
Matt Greene (LA 2nd pair D)
Bryce Salvador (NJ 3rd pair D)
Kent Huskins (SJ 3rd pair D)

Alex Auld (MTL backup G)
Jose Theodore (unsigned/likely backup G)

Mike Richards - C- 1st line Flyers, 1st PK, #1 PP.
John Tavares - C - 1st line NYI, #1 PP
Nathan Horton - W - 1st line Boston, #1 PP
Kyle Okposo - W - 1st line winger, #1 PP
Jamie Benn - W -1st/2nd line DAL, #2 PP
Nikolai Zherdev - W -First line wing for Philly, #2 PP.
Jordan Staal - C - 2nd/3rd line Centre (rumours of Malkin to the wing), #1 PK, #2 PP
Brandon Sutter - C -2nd line CAR, #1 PK
Taylor Hall - ? - 2nd line Edm, #1 PP
Evander Kane - ? - top 6 ???? 2nd PK.
Blake Wheeler - W - 2nd/3rd line Wing on Boston. 1st PK
Darren Helm - C - 4th line centre, #1 PK, Detroit.

Dion Phaneuf - First Pairing, #1 PP, #2 PK
Shea Weber - First pairing, #1 PP, #1 PK
Jack Johnson - First pairing, #1 PP, #2 PK
Kyle Quincey - First pairing , #2 PK, #2 PP
Matt Niskanen - #4/#5, #2 PP
Cam Fowler - # 4/#5, #1 PP

Summary:
1st line forwards : 6
2nd line forwards: 5
3rd line forwards: 1
4th line forwards: 1

Top pairing dmen: 4
3rd pairing: 2

1st unit PP: 9
2nd unit PP: 5

1st unit PK: 6
2nd unit PK: 4

I don't know.